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Asphasia?

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Trouble producing or understanding speech

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Prosopagnosia?

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Unable to recognize faces, but objects are fine

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Visual agnosia?

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Unable to recognize visual objects, but faces are fine

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What is dualism?

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Interraction between the mind and the body

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Who introduced dualism?

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Descartes

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What did Hermann von Helmholtz study?

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The nerve impulse

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Who introduced the JND?

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Gustav Fencher

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Who introduced mental chronometry?

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Franciscus Donders

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Who introduced the additive factors logic?

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Franciscus Donders

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Who was the founder of structuralism?

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Wundt

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Wundt was the founder of?

a) analytical intrusion
b) accurate observation of visible behavior
c) additive factors logic
d) verify and compare groups experimentally

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a) analytical intrusion

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Who was the founder of behaviorism?

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Watson

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In an experiment, the variable that is manipulated is called?

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Independent variable

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Operational definition?

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Designed to model or represent a concept or theoretical definition

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Who introduced the classic conditioning?

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Ivan Pavlov

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Who introduced the operant conditioning?

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Skinner

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What phenomenon used Gestalt psychologists?

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Apparent motion

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What is a correlational research?

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Measures association between two variables

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What are subject variables?

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Criteria on which the groups are matched

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What are control variables?

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Aspects of the experiment that are equal for the experimental and control group

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What is the internal validity?

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Is the change of the independend variable A the actual cause of the change of dependent variable B?

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What is external validity?

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To which extent can you generalize the results to the real world and intended population?

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